 | | RE: Useful sets —Tilman Sporkert
| | | | (...) Other than the turntable and a rack-and-pinion steering mechanism, you don't get much. There are a few pneumatics parts, but no air tank. The gripper arm uses penumatics, and that's very difficult to adapt to the RCX. Tilman (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | | | | | | RE: Useful sets —Ralph Hempel
| | | | | (...) I think you think that they think it's an 8443 Log Loader. It's really the big ugly green thing with the silver coloured baloon tire hubs in the Christmas Catalog. This looks like a neat model for gears and wheels, but the gripper looks like a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Useful sets —Eric Brok
| | | | | 8446 (the green monster) isn't very fit to be RCX controlled, (but technic pieces are useful anyhow). It's a strange but clever model in itself. A selfcontained 'pneumatic' plunge is used to push up the front cabin, triggered by a mechanical lever. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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